Over Your Skis
By Tim Harlow When we get ahead of God, we’re getting ready to fall. Like you, I cringe every time a pastor flames out. For one thing, I know that there, but for the grace of God, go I. I also know my...
View ArticleThe Wrong Kind of Strong
By Eddie Lowen Three attributes we should seek when we say we want a strong leader. In Disney’s animated film Beauty and the Beast, a strapping young man named Gaston cannot fathom why Belle (the...
View ArticleStrategic Solutions for Significant Stages
By Jennifer Johnson Writers of short-think pieces like this one love to quote statistics about the hundreds or even thousands of pastors who are leaving the ministry each month. However, as Ed Stetzer...
View ArticleOut of Network
By Tim Harlow My best advice for your ministry: share the Spirit. So Moses . . . brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and...
View ArticleHealthy Leaders, Healthy Churches
By Jennifer Johnson Christian leaders often try to “fill the well” by reading, praying, resting, and spending time with God, and they talk about “leading out of the overflow” of a life that’s...
View Article6 Secrets Leaders Share
By Alan Ahlgrim Every person can relate to being at the end of his or her rope—especially leaders! But realizing that secrets like these are common to many can lead to solutions and calm....
View ArticleRedefining Success
By Alan Ahlgrim In Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome, Kent and Barbara Hughes begin with Kent’s angry lament: “Most people I know in the ministry are unhappy. . . . They are failures in...
View ArticleHow Residencies Prepare Emerging Church Leaders
By Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird How and why residencies have become standard operating practice for all of NewThing’s new church planters. When you think about a residency program, you might envision...
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